During the height of the Great War, Helen Losanitch Frothingham who at the behest of the Serbian government came to visit the Canadian Prairies while on her way to Vancouver and Victoria.
Later, in her diary, she wrote about leaving "Winnipeg Monday evening" by train and reaching "Toronto at 4 P.M. Wednesday", a long two-night journey and more.
[2] The dire situation in the Balkans spurred recruitment of Canadian doctors for civilian practice in Serbia while local doctors served in the Serbian Army[3] Some fifty Serbian families lived in Winnipeg and neighboring St. Boniface at the outbreak of World War I,[4] though not many in number but just as significant as any ethnic pioneer community in the Canadian West at the time.
The next big wave of immigrants came after the war with the arrival of Serbian émigrés who fought under General Dragoljub Mihailovich to the Dominion of Canada.
No improvements occurred until Bishop Sava (Vuković), on his way to Vancouver, accompanied by Rev, Vladimir Milinković and Protodeacon Dr. Nedeljko Grgurević visited the small community.